Everyone Has Got One Good Song (haven't they?)

  Welcome to the belated latest instalment of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Day 27. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection is dedicated to birthday boy Phil Collins. Against All Odds – Phil Collins . Despite the fact that most of Phil Collins musical career can be filed in a bin marked “Things I Would Rather Try And Force A Switched On Toaster Up My Urethra Than Liste...

Welcome to the belated latest instalment of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Day 26. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection is dedicated to birthday boy Roddy Frame. Small World – Roddy Frame . Because I’m always late to these things, I only watched Early Doors in lockdown. And it brought me more joy and tears than nearly anything else I watched in that time. And Roddy’s them...

Welcome to the belated latest instalment of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Day 24/25. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection is dedicated to birthday boys Tricky and Rakim. Brand New, You’re Retro - Tricky . He’s probably called that because he’s really difficult to buy for. Anyway, back in yer early 90s, and in the wake of Massive Attack being fucking brilliant from seemin...

Welcome to the belated latest instalment of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Days 22 and 23. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Fucking mental week work wise so here’s a 20 to make up for yesterday’s missing 10. Our birthday artists are John Cooper Clarke and Jazzie B. Beasley Street – John Cooper Clarke . Our nation’s greatest living poet and the only one in the playl...

Welcome to Day 20 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. I’m in meetings all day today so time is brief – suffice to say we have birthday boy Jools Holland’s old band Squeeze providing bittersweet pop perfection, then melancholy stuff from Damien Jurado, Dears and Moses Sumney, soul majesty from Erma Franklin, silver soul from Beach House,...

  Welcome to Day 20 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Anita Pointer. Automatic is one of the best singles of the 1980s. End of. You can keep your How Soon is Now? Into You – Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande is every bit as great a pop star and artist as Taylor Swift is and eventually, as with most t...

Welcome to Day 19 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Michael Hutchence. Kick by INX$ is one of the best pop albums of the 1980s – better than Thriller for my money and this is a proper play loud and self consciously dance around a bedroom annoyingly like Kate Winslet trashing her reputation in The Holida...

Welcome to Day 18 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Robert del Naja of Massive Attack. Like most sensible people my age, Unfinished Sympathy was one of those fuck me I need this record now songs when I first heard it. Pretty sure I heard it round my mate Steve’s bedroom, spring 1991. Mad time that was. ...

Welcome to Day 17 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is the only rock star I’ve queued in a Cardiff branch of Boots behind, Nicky Wire. If you want to pay pilgrimage to this particular shrine of rock history, you can’t, as it’s one they knocked down when they were redeveloping the Central Station area. Anyw...

Welcome to Day 16 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is latter-day American saint, country icon, style guru and champion of good causes Dolly Parton. Jolene is one of the greatest songs of all time and no amount of eloquent wordsmithery (hardly my strong point) will do it justice so I’ve gone for 9 to 5 ins...

  Welcome to Day 15 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is David Ruffin, one time member of   the Temptations. This is the music I grew up with. Motown/Stax etc. That was my parents’ favourite music before they became parents. Its weird to think of your folks as being young and carefree at some poi...

  Welcome to Day 14 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Susanna Hoffs. And a properly great cover version. No, not that one. The other one. The other songs today…. The Ghost of Cincinatti – Big Red Machine. Big Elliot Smith vibes around on this and if that puts you off, then well, there’s no help...

Welcome to Day 13 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Aaliyah. I’m not exactly the biggest RnB fan in the world but back in the dog days of the 20 th century, if a record had Timbaland’s name on the credits somewhere it was usually worth a listen. This song reminds me of getting together with someone I w...

Welcome to Day 12 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Will Oldham. I saw him in a film called Matewan that I really liked but I didn’t know that that kid was the same dude who went on to be recording beautiful and bleak country songs under about a million pseudonyms till recently. I chose this song becaus...

Welcome to Day 11 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is LL Cool J. I once got revenge on my brother when he was being a particularly annoying little shit by telling his mates I saw him miming to this song, air rapping and everything. I hadn’t seen any such thing. Sorry G. The other songs today…. That’s ...

Welcome to Day 10 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Suggs. First LP I ever got by a band was Absolutely by Madness. I was 9. I don’t listen to them enough now – that first run of classic singles really is up there with anyone’s isn’t it? I have fond memories of my Dad prepare for a Saturday night out by...

  Welcome to Day 9 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Chris Bell. Like a lot of music fans my age I got to know of him through the copious references to Big Star whenever Teenage Fanclub were being interviewed in the early 90s. I presumed he’d died of a drug overdose or suicide or something, but it ...

Welcome to Day 8 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Mary J Blige. I only heard this the other day and I quite liked it. The track I was going to put turned out to be by Mos Def and she was just guesting. Ah well. She’s a great singer though. I would have been in the same school year as her. That’s weird ...

  Welcome to Day 7 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens. The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R   So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS. I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot Today’s selection. Our featured birthday artist is Rod Stewart. Maggie May reminds me of being young and fucking stupid and playing pool and talking about girls in the Elephant and Castle pub in Carmarthen. Blur covered it once and it was shit. The other songs today…. The Stations – Gutter Tw...